Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF.

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF.
Date	2016-08-27 19:56 +0000
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On 2016-08-27, Antoine Delatour <bin.bin1@live.fr> wrote:
> On 25/08/2016 03:29, RS Wood wrote:
>> IMGUR.com is full of them, and even I enjoy them.  (Better than Flash!)
>> 
>> GIF fills a niche no other format does, for better or for worse.
>
> IMGUR converts GIFs to GIFV when possible (it's own extension, basically
> an MP4):
> - https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/208606616-What-is-GIFV
> - http://blog.imgur.com/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/
>
> In my opinion, the movement to kill GIF hasn't died and is the closest
> it's ever been to doing that. Even though APNG was rejected, the WEBP
> format pushed by Google has aquired adoption and will make an appearance
> in Firefox soon ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490 ).
>
> GIF was a very limited format, but it did the job, so there wasn't
> really another option for animated pictures and that was a reason for
> which it stayed.
> Now, with better alternamives for animated images and still images, GIF
> should disappear slowly.

It can look forward to dying a natural death rather than being lynched by a
mob ...

WebM is quite nice.  Chrome browser can read it well - it delivers better
video/audio for fewer bytes, the porn sites have integrated, and history
shows once you need support for a particular format to consume porn, the
market speaks soon and loudly.

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The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-24 10:32 +0000
  Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-24 14:32 +0100
    Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-24 16:39 +0000
    Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-08-25 01:29 +0000
      Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Antoine Delatour <bin.bin1@live.fr> - 2016-08-27 13:55 +0200
        Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-27 14:42 +0100
        Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-08-27 19:56 +0000
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